Mo Isom raised a lot of eyebrows as she tried to make LSU’s football team as a kicker. Though the former Tigers soccer goalie and homecoming queen fell short of that goal last month during tryouts, her dream isn’t over yet. She’ll have a chance to make the team in the fall.

“The guys took me under their wing right away,” Isom told DeGeneres. “It’s like next level when you’re around that much testosterone. So it smells terrible, the things I hear I can’t even wrap my head around, but it’s so much fun. It’s just a whole another level of intensity that brings out the best in athletes.”

Isom also addressed the car accident that left her near death, and pictures of the wreck were shown along with a hospitalized Isom. Clearly, she was lucky to be alive after her Jeep was found upside down.

She told DeGeneres she lives by an inspiring motto, one that certainly fits her quest to play with the boys: “The only thing more dangerous than allowing others to put limitations on what you can achieve is allowing yourself to believe them.”